A new acquisition: A game that uses a magnet and a metallic wheel to show a letter that is indexed against sheets of code to predict(?).
Perhaps the title on the box can be translated to provide guidance: Verborgener Gedanken Errathende Machine.

All We Know: Three Lives by Lisa Cohen, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Esther Murphy was a brilliant New York intellectual who dazzled friends and strangers with an unstoppable flow of conversation. But she never finished the books she was contracted to write—a painful failure and yet a kind of achievement.